Student Life

Fine Arts Organizations

Students in the photography club

Students have a variety of opportunities to express themselves through theater, art and music.

Some of the organizations dedicated to exploration of and performance in the fine arts include:

  • African Drumming Ensemble—a group that uses West African djembes and two sets of jun-juns to perform a ten-song repertoire in conjunction with many departments and musical ensembles throughout the University
  • Ballroom Dancing—provides an extracurricular activity for students to learn, teach and expand their knowledge of Ballroom and Latin dancing as well as perform and compete learned dances.
  • Collaborative Artists of Redlands—a student organization that brings together student artists in an effort to showcase the diversity of talents on campus in theatre arts productions
  • Dance Company—an organization established for people with a passion for dancing and dance performance
  • Musical Theatre Club—a club that promotes the musical theatre arts on campus and in the community
  • Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia—a national music fraternity for men that promotes high standards of creativity, performance, education and research in music in America
  • Photography Club —a group where students interested in photography can meet to show and discuss each other’s photos
  • Redlands Review—a student-run and produced literary journal, which includes poetry, fiction and literary nonfiction writing as well as two-dimensional artwork
  • Sigma Alpha Iota—an international music fraternity for women that seeks to uphold the highest standards of music and further the development of music on campus, in the community and throughout the world
  • Sweet Charity—a women’s a cappella music ensemble that performs primarily jazz music, including original arrangements

Thurber, an English bulldog, is the University's mascot.
Thurber

He is named after Clarence Howe Thurber, University president from 1933-37.

More »